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Re:Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars by geezerjay on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @01:15PM (#17610955)
You're missing the fact that the US military is in its core a employment and social services program used extensively to create artificial jobs and artificial demand for skilled labour and high-tech products and services.

Not to mention the cultural importance that the US military as an institution has on the US, of course.

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Re:Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars by freehunter on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @02:03PM (#17611356)
And those skilled labor and high-tech products and services would transition extraordinarily well to a space-based economy.
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Re:Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars by geezerjay on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @02:17PM (#17611479)
What exactly makes you believe that rocket science is a domain that's easy to transition into?
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Re:Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars by freehunter on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @02:21PM (#17611506)
Very little about space is rocket science. Cars are really hard to build and it took thousands of years for mankind to build one, but that doesn't mean the person changing your oil has to know how to fabricate one from scratch in his garage. There are thousands of job titles around the auto industry that require zero knowledge of how cars work.
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